The ability to forecast manpower requirements is crucial for an industry. On the demand side, companies rely on these forecasts to formulate their manpower planning strategies, while, on the supply side, they provide job seekers with a basis to assess the attractiveness of a given sector. Forecasts of supply and demand for manpower also make an important contribution to the governmental policy-...

Nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. So any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. This study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the Iran ministry of health.This research is a cross wardal stud...

In a graded manpower system, an apparently sensible transition rate may, in due course, show a tendency for certain grades to grow at the expenses of others. Achieving operational objectives in manpower planning is of paramount importance. A typical objective may be to reach a desired structure by a certain time in a changing environment or with the smallest possible cost. Therefore a certain d...

The primary purpose of this paper is to show an efficient way of handling models and model data in a decision support system, in which is is usual to consider several variants of a model. The model data primarily consist of model-defining data, but the same approach may be used for the generated results as well. By efficient handling is meant the handling by the computer as well as by the user....